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June 1,1926. r 1,587,354

- W. A. RADFORD TOY Filed May 2, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 June 1,1926. 1,537,354

W. A. RADFORD v TOY Filed May 2; 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 l ateuted June 1, 1925,

issues age series.

TOY.

Application filed May 2,

My invention relates to the arts of amusement, education, and 'elling, and more specifically to an improved cut-out serviceable in all three ways; first, an amusen'ient device pure and simple; second, as a source of education and information; and third, as an adjunct to a selling campaign.

One object of the invention is to provide a device capable of performing all services, in which no one of the features rendered lcss eliieient by the presence of any of the others. Stated more specifically, the object is to have each feature contribute to the usefulness and the interest of the device.

Another object is to make the device use ful and interesting to persons of all ages.

Another object is to provide sheet like means capable of being assembled to represent views of opposite sides of a solid object on opposite sides of the assembled device, without any unsightly mismatching between the parts thus assembled.

Another object is to provide sheet like means capable of being assembled into an attractive space replica of a complete scene.

A further objectis to provide a combined perspective and plan representation of a plurality of buildings,.p=' ferably houses, the perspective naving a back ground which indicates the appearance of the particular building when complete and its relative appearance in connection with other houses on a street.

Another object is to utilize as much as possible of the entire area of a simple rectangular sheet of material in forming such a replica.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. l is a plan view of a short section of a blank according to my invention;

l 2 is a lgierspective view of a street scene assembled from such blanks; and.

Fig. 3 is a similar perspective showing the blanks arranged to portray one side of a street only.

In the embodiment of my invention selected for illustration, and with reference first to Fig. 1, I provide flat strips of material carrying indicia defining a space at corresponding to half the width of a street, a parkway at 12, a sidewalk at 14, front yard 16 extending back to a building line at 18,

192%.. Eerial No. 710,523.

b uil din epresenting persons, motor cars, and many other various OlJjQCtS ordinarily seen along "egoing areas comprise substantiali e sheet of material. G'n the other ialf make a line 28 spaced from line 234.

a ance equal to the distance between and 18. liieasuring back i": line 28 l portray a mass of foliage 30 h v per contom' lines duplicating those 0' foliage although the arrangement of foliage within the contour line need not necessarily he the same. In the foliage i show rear perspective views 3:2 of the same houses town in front view at 20. Additional cutouts 26 may be employed to utilize the space between foliage 30 and line The parts thus far descaibed may be utilized substantially as follows: The strip is pre. ably severed first along line 24, and next a cut mate along the contour of foliage and along the contour of folia e 30. The two halves may then be folded 90 abou lines 18 and 28, and the foliage, portions juxtaposed to stand in right. These portions may be pinned or preicrably pasted together, and as the edges of the foliage and 30 register, there will be no projecting blank surfaces to be seen when looking the sembly from either side. Back of each house, i. e.,.in the bucxyard of the lot as at 341?, 1 provide a plan View of the house illustrated. The inserts 26 each comprise a figure portion 36 and a base portion 88, and may be cut out and folded to bring the base and figure portions substantially to right angles, so that the figures may be positioned at various points along the street to complete the representation of a street scene. The contour of the front view of a house at 20 and a rear view of the same house at 32 would not reg istcr, but by providing a bank of foliage for the front and and using the same contour line for the foliage, suitable registry is obtained, and an unsightly appearance avoided.

According to the space available for using the devices, they may be assembled as in 2 to show both sides of a street, or as in Fig. 3 to show one side of a street of greater length.

Very young children will find amusement [ill and no little intellectual training in merely looking at the devices, and in moving the figures 3'6 from place to place. Children of i more advanced age will receive manual raining in cutting out, folding and pasting the devices. Still older persons will Eiud the building plan at the rear of each house o1 no little interest, especially as attractive perspective views of the assembled house from front and rear are close beside the plan, Con'iparison oi the diii erent houses show: by the devices with each other and with actual houses with whicn those discussing the matter are itan'iiliar is facilitated by this arrangen'ieut-v In this way, all the meu'ibers of the family iind something to interest tiein all at. the same time in the same device, although the grounds of interest are ditl hile the arents and older cliildiscussing the relative inei'ts of J. ab:

ot. the youngsters "for that purpose only. uric of the ways in which the article is inandcd to be used, is substantially as folas: The cut outs will be distrilnited gratis .Q to children by some one interested in selling building materials, services in landscape I or architects plans, and will prcirrably bear the name of the distributor in a conspicuous way. They will find their way into every home in a neighborhood in a surprisingly short time, a id in any home where a prospective customer is found the attractive display and the convenient presentation in compact form of a relatively large amount of information cannot fail to attract much interest. Such a presentation will be much better and more thoroughly di gcsted than it could possibly be in a window wh re the prospective customer must and nd on the sidewalk to look at it; and during the process the name of the advertiser will be deeply impressed in the memory.

ll ithout "further elaboration, the foregoing will so fully ex lain the gist ot the invcntion, that others may, by applying current knowledge, readily adapt the same for use under various conditions of service, without elin'iinating certain features which may properly be said to constitute the essential items of novelty involved, which items re intended to be defined and secured to me by the following claims.

I claim: 1. A cut-out coi'i'iprising two blanks placed fat ,porting base, a pictorial representation 01?- a house on one blank and a pictorial house repres ntation of the same house on the other blan r, said house representations being of different contour and the edges of each blank bearing representations of toilage surrounding each house representation and masking the differences in contour of the house representations and providing registering edges about the two blanl-is of the cut-out.

2. A cut-out comprising two sides placed back to back, a view or" an object on one sine, a different view of the same object on the other side, said views having different contours, and pictorial representations of matter other than said object surrounding each of said views and along the edges of each side for masking the differences in contour of said views and providing registering edges about the two sides of the cut-out.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 28th day of April, 1924-.

WM. A. RADFORD. 

